Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.
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Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
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So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.
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I think of how much I've learned from doing television, and it is so invaluable.
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I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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Rap is definitely a youthful expression.
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Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
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I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.
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People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.
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Justice is happiness according to virtue.
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Where it is right now, in spite of everybody saying 'Oh, I love the new game,' I don't love the new game.
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The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'
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Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
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Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.
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Don't say nothing bout the old house. Cos I burned it to the ground. And when the darkness comes, I lie awake. Playing lost and found
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
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Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
